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1) Badger boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Texas Frontier 1865. The Civil War is over and Texas is yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. Rusty Shannon finds that the Rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to find his girl married.
2) The son
Author
Language
English
Description
"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...
4) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's Many a River, two brothers are orphaned and separated, only to be reunited as enemies on opposing sides of the Civil War.
The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son,...
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